Alaska man charged with making numerous graphic and violent threats towards Supreme Court justices
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An Alaska man was charged and arrested Wednesday for sending numerous graphic and violent messages through a public Supreme Court communications portal that threatened to injure and kill six justices, according to court filings and the Justice Department.
An Alaska man was charged and arrested Wednesday for sending numerous graphic and violent messages through a public Supreme Court communications portal that threatened to injure and kill six justices, according to court filings and the Justice Department. Some of the messages, according to court filings, used the N-word in threats to “lynch” a justice – identified in the filings as “Supreme Court Justice 1” – while also threatening the justice’s “insurrectionist wife.” Other messages refer to shooting another justice – identified “Supreme Court Justice 2” – and killing his wife, and another alleged message threatened six justices total, saying that they should “be AFRAID very AFRAID to leave their home and fear for their lives everyday.” A grand jury handed up a 22-count indictment against the man, Panos Anastasiou, 76, on Tuesday, charging him with making threats against a federal judge and making threats in interstate commerce. “WE NEED MASS ASSASSINATIONS. If you’re corrupt you’re corrupt,” said one of the messages, one of more than 465 that Anastasiou allegedly sent to the Supreme Court. Anastasiou pleaded not guilty at a hearing in Alaska’s federal court on Wednesday. His attorney, a public defender, declined to comment to CNN. Anastasiou’s threatening messages started in March 2023, according to prosecutors, and continued through mid-July. The references to Justice 1’s wife and the racial slurs in those messages suggest that justice is Justice Clarence Thomas. The messages directed toward a justice identified in court filings as “Justice 2” were sent not long after a New York Times story revealed that an upside-down American flag flew outside Justice Samuel Alito’s home in early January 2021. Those messages also refer to the wife of that justice.
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